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Amazon will now deliver food from chain restaurants such as Applebee's, Sweetgreen, Shake Shack, Chili's and Red Robin. The service, called Amazon Restaurants, is available to Amazon Prime customers.
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They then routinely contacted Amazon to report the items they received – including GoPro digital cameras, Microsoft Xboxes and Samsung smartwatches – were damaged or not working, and requested and received replacements from the retailer at no charge.

The Finans then sold the stolen merchandise to co-defendant Danijel Glumac of Indianapolis, who in turn sold the items to an unnamed “New York entity," authorities said.

The charges against the Muncie couple were filed after an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Indiana State Police.

Leah Finan was charged in April in Delaware Circuit Court 5 with theft, deception and check deception. Her trial in that case is set for Feb. 1.

Documents in the Delaware County case now list Leah Finan at an address in Clarksville, Tenn.

Her husband has been convicted of check deception, in Delaware County, and theft, in Madison County.

Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.